You’ll find the small town of Lacombe (population 11,000) in central Alberta, half way between Calgary and Edmonton. It’s a...
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The Hoover Dam, originally called the Boulder Dam, was built over five years during the Great Depression to hold back...
The Columbia Icefields Parkway stretches for 232 km (144 miles) between Lake Louise and Jasper, Alberta. It’s one of the prettiest drives in Canada – and indeed the world. While you can knock it off comfortably in three to four hours, that doesn’t allow for any stops. At a minimum,...
I’ve been camping now for 30 plus years. Growing up it was all about cottages – but when John and...
Over two weeks we found a lot of interesting places to visit in Morocco, starting and ending in Casablanca. The...
South Bohemia is a beautiful area south of Prague that largely flies under the radar of foreign tourists – save for the storybook-like town of Český Krumlov. The region is definitely not a mainstream destination. And yet South Bohemia enjoys an embarrassment of riches including a plethora of fairy-tale like...
The Brahmaputra River Cruise as you’ll see when you read this guest post by my friend Judi Cohen, is truly...
Fun and unique places to visit in Saskatchewan are not hard to find. Even though Saskatchewan is one of Canada’s...
“There’s nothing there” some told us. “Just flat desert.” However, after having our fill of culture for a week we wanted to get a little taste of Wild Jordan and were not to be deterred from visiting the Azraq Wetland Reserve. We had not seen very many bird species in...
The hike to the Petra Monastery was the highlight of my day in the rose-coloured city of Petra. The Monastery,...